Immigration Quiz

What is an immigrant?

• Someone who visits another state.

• A person who leaves one country to settle in another.

• An individual who doesn’t speak English.

• Someone who worked at Ellis Island during the 1800s.

What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize or stand for?

• Peace

• Wealth

• Friends

• Freedom

Immigrants were inspected for trachoma. Trachoma is:

• a highly contagious eye infection that could cause blindness.

• a blood disease that made people weak.

• a sickness that weakened the muscles.

• an infection that causes numbness in the legs.

Which of the following could be a reason why people immigrated to the United States in the past?

• They did not have enough money to take care of their family in their own country.

• They could not practice their religion freely where they came from.

• both a and b

• neither a nor b

The belly (bottom) of the ship where many people stayed during the long journey to America.

• Health Tests

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Steerage

After arriving at Ellis Island, immigrants had to go through these to show that they were healthy.

• Seasickness

• Ellis Island

• Health Tests

• Steerage

A way of displaying events in chronological order.

• Steerage

• Timeline

• Ellis Island

• Seasickness

The place where mostly Asian immigrants entered the United States.

• Ellis Island

• Steerage

• Timeline

• Angel Island

The place where more than 11 million immigrants, mainly from Europe, entered the United States.

• Steerage

• Seasickness

• Ellis Island

• Timeline

Some people had this as they traveled across the ocean to the U.S.

• Health Tests

• Seasickness

• Angel Island

• Timeline